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...Along the road [Carmel-San Simeon highway, opened late last month-TIME, July 5] are the mouths of many lonely and inaccessible cañons which creep away up into the Santa Lucia Mountains. Five miles up one cañon is a large lime kiln deserted for more than 30 years. No wagon road ever went to it. The lime was brought down from the mountain to ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this...
...Carmel-By-the-Sea, Calif...
...cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst's huge San Simeon ranch and San Luis Obispo, opens up a whole unspoiled section to motorists...
...years later two San Francisco capitalists, Selah Chamberlain and Harry W. Cole, decided to salvage the wreck. Legal squabbles beset the reclamation at once, the biggest coming when the State Highway District claimed the right-of-way to link it into the Carmel-San Simeon Highway. Civic clubs, chambers of commerce and the like have joined forces with the State to wrest the road from Ocean Shore R.R. Last week the battle still raged in court. Meanwhile, Downey Harvey, hav-ing lost $5,000,000 and been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud...
...CARMEL SNOW Editor Harper's Bazaar New York City